snickerdoodle

Status
Documentation
Compatibility

What is snickerdoodle?

snickerdoodle is an easy-to-use, general-purpose cookiecutter template for Python projects utilizing modern tools and best practices. To see an demo repository using this template, check out snickerdoodle_demo.

Why use snickerdoodle?

In contrast to highly-opinated templates, snickerdoodle has limited requirements with powerful options that users can opt into in the cookiecutter questionnaire. If you want snickerdoodle to support other options, please make a feature request or contribute.

• Built-in:
  • Dependency Management:
  • Linting:
  • Testing:
  • Templater:
• Options Supported:
  • Automated Hooks:
  • CI/CD:
  • Code Coverage: (must have installed on the named GitHub account)
  • Dependency Updater:
  • Different Badge Styles:
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
  • Documentation: on automatically built and deployed with every commit
  • Publishing:
    • with using publish.yml
    • automatically with any commit beginning with a version number (e.g., "0.2.3")
  • Repository Initialization: with an initial commit (must have installed with token access)
  • Virtual Environment Creation:

Getting started

Setup

If you are new to cookiecutter or simply want to guarantee that the created repository works as intended, follow the instructions in the snickerdoodle tutorial.

If you are familiar with cookiecutter templates, you can go about the normal construction process. However, if you do not select the optional automatic setup features in the questionnaire, you should follow the instructions for manually setting up your virtual environment and deploying your documentation in the snickerdoodle tutorial. It is especially important to follow the document deployment process for your initial deployment - after that GitHub Actions will automatically update and redeploy the documentation (and you need not use the manual process again).

Usage

After your repository is created, you can start coding right away. Every push to GitHub will run any tests in the "tests" folder, deploy documentation to GitHub Pages, and apply ruff for linting. For more information about the following topics, just click on the corresponding hyperlink.

• Formatting and Linting
• GitHub Actions
• Publishing
• Repository Layout
• Versioning

Contributing

Contributors are always welcome and should find snickerdoodle easy to work with. The template is highly documented so that users and developers can adapt or extend snickerdoodle to work with their projects. So, forking and creating different template spins is encouraged. If you want to contribute directly, feel free to grab an issue to work on or make a suggested improvement. If you wish to contribute, please read the Contribution Guide and Code of Conduct.

Similar Projects

These are other cookiecutter templates using uv as their dependency manager:

• cookiecutter-uv-hypermodern-python: an opinionated template that uses, among other tools, sphinx, GitHub Actions, nox, mypy, typeguard, Prettier, Click, and ruff. If you do not mind those choices and wanted a modern, maintained template, this is the one to use.
• cookiecutter-uv: uses ruff, mypy, tox, mkdocs, and deptry.
• ultraviolet: a basic template that requires Homebrew.

Acknowledgements

I'd also like to extend a special thanks to pawamoy whose excellent mkdocs extensions and utlities are incorporated into snickerdoodle. Some of the scripts, documentation, configuration files, and other CI code were all adapted from pawamoy's repositories.

I would also like to thank the University of Kansas School of Law for tolerating and supporting this law professor's coding efforts, an endeavor which is well outside the typical scholarly activities in the discipline.

License